Table 1.
Treatment outcome among patients confirmed to have non-MDR-TB at initial diagnosis and throughout treatment in Moldova, 2007–2010
| Case type
|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New, n (%) | Previously treated
|
Total*, n (%) | |||||
| Relapse, n (%) | Return from default, n (%) | After failure, n (%) | Chronic, n (%) | All previously treated, n (%) | |||
| Cured | 1987 (52.4) | 298 (45.5) | 64 (22.9) | 57 (41.9) | 1 (6.3) | 420 (38.6) | 2409 (49.3) |
| Completed | 795 (21.0) | 93 (14.2) | 19 (6.8) | 9 (6.6) | 2 (12.5) | 123 (11.3) | 919 (18.8) |
| Failed treatment | 182 (4.8) | 44 (6.7) | 20 (7.1) | 22 (16.2) | 0 (0.0) | 86 (7.9) | 270 (5.5) |
| Defaulted | 437 (11.5) | 135 (20.6) | 117 (41.8) | 24 (17.6) | 3 (18.8) | 279 (25.7) | 719 (14.7) |
| Died | 249 (6.6) | 62 (9.5) | 45 (16.1) | 17 (12.5) | 7 (43.8) | 131 (12.1) | 382 (7.8) |
| Still on treatment as of 14 Sept 2011 | 141 (3.7) | 23 (3.5) | 15 (5.4) | 7 (5.1) | 3 (18.8) | 48 (4.4) | 191 (3.9) |
| Total | 3791 | 655 | 280 | 136 | 16 | 1087 | 4890 |
| Excluding those still on treatment as of 14 Sept 2011 | |||||||
| Total | 3650 | 632 | 265 | 129 | 13 | 1039 | 4699 |
| Percentage defaulted | 12.0 | 21.4 | 44.2 | 18.6 | 23.1 | 26.9 | 15.3 |
*
Includes an additional 12 cases that initiated treatment abroad